Hey - it works! Sort of. Now I see the reason there's such ambiguity in the numbers being under the Poll bars, rather than in front of them. And where did all that space come from between the vote count and the bars of the bar graph? I never saw that before.

(There's gotta be a better way...)

This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher, March 15, 2016 12:53

I just voted. I thought I was a real chance to come close to winning this one, but Limerick 8 has scooped the pool. I liked it a lot, one of only two to rhyme both syllables of Cancun in each of lines 1, 2 & 5 (one of mine was the other) and I voted for it too. I reckon it might be one of Hab's.

Good thing I didn't win though , because I am going away for my first holiday (just to Tasmania, the Apple Isle) since going to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

7. Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the FiddleThe Cow moved South to CancunThe little dog laughedAt whatever came aftAnd the Dish ran away with the Spoon. -- haberdasher again - Yes, I know it isn't really a limerick, but it seemed to fit so closely... !

8. There's a Spanish chanteuse in CancunWho makes every gentleman swoon,As with accent exoticHer vocals erotic-ly render each Catalan tune. -- shufitz the clear winner! Four votes out of seven - Greg had two (one for each of two separate entries), and I got one.

9. In the jungle just west of CancúnI encountered a hairy baboon.I asked, 'Lost your way?'He replied, 'Oh, nay, nay,Swam here all the way from Rangoon!' -- bethree5

posted March 23, 2016 20:58 Hide PostHmmm, "scooped the pool..." I haven't heard that one before. I just love language!

Didn't realise it was an Aussie expression but guess it must be.

Sorry Bob, yes you did rhyme both syllables in all of 1, 2 & 5. And yes Kalleh I know it isn't a requirement, but I like it when people are able to do it in a creative way, where the rhyme isn't just there for the sake of the rhyme and it doesn't seem in any way forced. I try to do it as often as I can - just for the challenge of it, but at least one of them usually seems a bit forced and it doesn't usually get votes, but happy that I pulled one this time for my attempt at doing it.

It's funny how sometimes you can't even write something that you think is even worth submitting, whereas other times they just roll off the tongue almost. I couldn't come up with a single one in the previous game, but in this game I just went bang, bang, bang and had sent Hab 3 limericks within about half an hour and 2 of them even pulled a vote each.

Yes, it was very good. Stygian black comedy, in fact. Stephanie Cole is a great actress and plays her part to perfection. At a guess someone in their 70s like the main characters is more likely to use the phrase.

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Not my call, but we could do worse than Bournemouth, where "Waiting for God" is set. The area around Bournemouth is well known for the high percentage of elderly residents, rather like Florida in the USA, and for similar reasons, although the weather is only marginally better than the rest of the UK. It's pronounced BORN-m'th (the apostrophe stands for a schwa, ə).

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

I'll start the new game for Shu, and you can send me your limericks. He has trouble typing, and I think particularly on WC he doesn't want to make mistakes because he respects the intellect here so much. Shu said he'd come up with one tomorrow.